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| It is fair to call Rodrigo Duterte a bloody tyrant |
To be clear, the president of the Philippine Islands, Rodrigo Duterte, will not give up power in five years -- or 50 years. The reason is plain: As part of his "War on Drugs," the Philippine president is sending death squads out to kill anyone even suspected of drug trafficking. It just so happens that many of those suspected of such a thing are mayors and public officials who disagree with him.
Should Rodrigo Duterte ever leave the office of the president, he will likely face criminal prosecution in the Philippines, if not in a world court.
Do not get me wrong, everyone wants the 'good guys' to win the War on Drugs. However, when the Magnetic North of trial by jury is lost then that means anyone can be accused, anyone can be murdered for the sake of what could very well be a trumped up charge. These Duterte death squads have even gone so far as to kill the wives and family members of suspected "drug kingpins."
This sounds an awful lot like a bloody purge, ala Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. The Philippine Supreme Court has even endorsed this total lack of due process, meaning one of two things: 1. The judges of the court and their families will, themselves, be executed for a ruling against Duterte; or 2. There was never any actual juris prudence happening in the Philippines at any time in its history.
I do not care how 'conservative' someone is in their politics. When it comes to the day when death squads are randomly moving throughout the public murdering suspected drug dealers and drug users at large, without any due process, then that is the day when government has become an evil entity that requires removing.
The fact that the current U.S. Government has endorsed this way of doing things is nothing short of chilling. Have people become so cowed by technology and self-involvement that they cannot even recognize the indecency of murder in the name of accusation? I will say this, at least at the Salem Witch Trials there was a semblance of order with mock trials. Even that terrible practice has not been afforded those on Duterte's 'enemies list.'
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